Artist: The Decemberists
Album: The King Is Dead
Song: Don't Carry It All
Tabbed by: dpowens@gmail.com
INTRO / VERSE
G Em D
Here we come to a turning of the season
G Em D
Witness to the arc towards the sun
G Em D
A neighbor's blessed burden, within reason
G Em D C
Becomes a burden borne of all in one, and nobody, nobody knows
CHORUS
C G
Let the yoke fall from our shoulders
C Em
Don't carry it all, don't carry it all
C G
We are all our hands and holders
Bm C
Beneath this bold and brilliant sun
G Em D
This I swear to all
G Em D
A monument to build beneath the arbors
G Em D
Upon a cliff that towers towards the trees
G Em D
Let every vessel pitching hard to starboard
G Em D C
Lay its head on summer's freckled knees and nobody, nobody knows
C G
Let the yoke fall from our shoulders
C Em
Don't carry it all, don't carry it all
C G
We are all our hands and holders
Bm C
Beneath this bold and brilliant sun
G Em D
This I swear to all, This I swear to all
G Em D
BRIDGE
Bm C
Bear a wreath of trillium and ivy
Bm Em
Lay it upon the body of a boy
Bm C
Lazy will the love come from its hiding
Am D
To return this quiet searcher to the soil
G Em D
So raise a glass to turnings of the season
G Em D
And watch it as it arcs towards the sun
G Em D
And you must bear your neighbors' burden within reason
G Em D C
And your labors will be borne when all is done, and nobody, nobody knows
C G
Let the yoke fall from our shoulders
C Em
Don't carry it all, don't carry it all
C G
We are all our hands and holders
Bm C
Beneath this bold and brilliant sun
G Em D
This I swear to all, This I swear to all
G Em D
This I swear to all. ("To all, to all, to all", etc, right on out.)
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